Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1867.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19911i
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A long wooden bridge on wooden piles, seen from the bank. An old woman and two children at the near end, a reeded bank in the left foreground

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

River-bridge, Saigon Bears Thomson's negative number: "1086"

Notes

This is one of a collection of same-size contact prints made, in 1981, from John Thomson's original negatives. The glass negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921 and are now in the Wellcome Institute Library

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19911i

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